The Billionaire(2)

I pushed aside the wave of sadness that threatened to overpower me as I  hurried my steps. Didn't want to be late getting to school, I didn't  have a good enough excuse for my tardiness and that was an added  headache I did not need. Besides I didn't want anything marring this one  thing that was mine and mine alone. As long as it remained my secret no  one could take it from me. The thought warmed my heart just a little,  it was a poor substitute for the real thing but it was all I had and I  will treasure it for as long as the memory stayed fresh.                       
       
           



       



Gideon



I'm watching my girl again, it's three days later. Things with Lynn have been squared away thank heaven.

We never lived together so there was no moving out to be done nothing to  be hashed out and fought over. She'd tried that leaving stuff at my  place shit more than once over the last two years but I always made sure  she took them with her the next time she came over. She was never too  happy about the situation but I never wanted that much of her. I'm not  ashamed of what we had, I'm a man with needs and we both scratched an  itch for each other when it suited both of us. I never used or abused  her in anyway and had no need to feel guilt for breaking things off. It  would've been more dishonorable to have had carried on dragged things  out when in my heart I knew it was over.

Enough about her, I don't have to give her a second thought, now I can  focus all my energy on my baby girl. I have to strategize and plan the  way I do with everything, though this would be the first time I'd ever  approached a woman in this way. I'm usually the hunted not the hunter  but in this case I feel compelled almost to go after her. Because of her  age I'm taking every precaution, if I have to approach her parents  first that can be arranged and hopefully they didn't try to play  hardball because the way I'm feeling there's nothing that will stand in  my way. Our first meeting has to go off without a hitch I want it to be  perfect. I have to learn all her habits so I would know where and when  to make my approach. I hope it doesn't take too long for my team to find  out what I need to know. Each day it gets harder and harder to hold off  but I like to know all the players in the game. If her parents are  going to prove difficult I have to know everything before going in.

My dick stays hard now just the thought of getting my hands on her is driving me insane.

I have one of my security team on her at all times now as well, while an  investigator is gathering all the information he can. I should know by  end of business today what moves I need to make thank fuck. It feels  like forever since I'd first laid eyes on her. Since this heat in my  body has been threatening to consume me. I should be annoyed that one  little girl should have this strong an affect on me but somehow I'm not.  In fact it's quite the opposite, I feel excited and energized. Like I'm  about to embark on the greatest adventure of my life. The one thing  that gives me pause is her age. Will she be closer to seventeen or  eighteen?

I'm hoping for good news, I don't fancy ending up in a police blotter as  a pedophile. I'm not sure I could touch her if she turned out to be  sixteen, legal or not. Neither am I sure I could wait to take her if she  turns out to be that young. Fuck!

She seems at a lost today as I watch from my window high above the city.  It seemed as if she were looking for something or someone. I know she  has no affiliations with anyone, according to my daily reports she lived  a pretty sheltered life. She went to school and then home, but during  the day when she was in class I had no way of knowing what went on  behind those walls. So far there was nothing to suggest she was attached  to anyone. It wouldn't be the easiest thing to break a teenaged girl's  heart if she fancied herself in love with some boy, but I know myself, I  will let nothing stand in my way.

There was a lot of planning to be done, according to what I find out  today my life is about to change drastically. Like I said I'm not  accustomed to being the hunter, never needed to be. And the fact that  she was so young, well that changed things; there will have to be  provisions made. I didn't want to cast her as just another one of my  acquisitions, somehow I knew she would be more than that, how much more  is left to be seen.

Gage has finally arrived with his news. I had him leave me the packet  with everything he found on my desk. I wanted to peruse alone at my own  leisure. My heart raced with excitement at what I would find there. It  really didn't matter though. I'd already made up my mind even if I had  to wait to have her under me I will take ownership very soon. There's no  way I could wait another year or two to approach her.

I have no idea what my head of security thinks is the reason for my  sudden interest in the life of a teenage girl. I'm not in the habit of  explaining myself. Why would I? It's nobody's business; if he found my  request strange he never let on though which is why he's in my employ.  He just does his job without question, which for a man in my position is  a great asset.

Alone in my office with my feet up I started to get to know my little Blossom.

Shit three months before she turns eighteen. Oh well, three months isn't  that long, and it's only my moral compass that stops me from going full  tilt ahead. I wonder though how mature she could be at her age?                       
       
           



       

If all I'd wanted were a quick fuck it wouldn't matter that she was  three months short of eighteen. I would just go for it, slake my lust  and be done, but I felt the need for something more.

My every instinct screamed at me to tread carefully. I always follow my  instincts and that's why I am where I am at such a young age. Old money  might have been my foundation, but what I did with what I had is what  makes me a force to be reckoned with. Her father is a high-ranking cop  in their small town on the outskirts of the city. I wonder why she was  coming here for school then? They had to have a school where she lived.

I looked up the place on the web since I'd never had cause to go there before.

Damn one thousand people talk about small I employed ten times that many people all around the globe, maybe more.

"Ashley." I said it out loud for the first time and felt it burn my tongue as it went through me.

Even her name made me hard. I had to get myself together there were  things I needed to do, things I needed to set in motion, like our first  meeting. Though I might consider holding off on anything too physical  for the next little while, there is no fucking way I'm waiting to meet  her.

Tomorrow then, tomorrow I will approach her, set the groundwork. I  studied the picture Gage had included. Damn she's beautiful. Something  about her pulled at my protective instinct. Like I needed to grab her up  and shield her from the rest of the big bad world. "Soon my little  Blossom." I rubbed my finger over her face as her eyes stared back at  me. I put her picture in my inside pocket as I set to work on my  strategy.





Chapter 3



Gideon



Another day has gone by since I first laid eyes on her, I've finally decided on my point of attack.

I've learned through the daily reports of the men I have guarding her  that she has a routine. Everyday on her lunch break she likes to sit  alone under a tree a little off school grounds. Perfect, I'm not sure  what the protocol is for strange men traipsing across schoolyards, but  I'm pretty sure it can't be good.

I can't put it off any longer. I haven't slept in days, and work has  lost its appeal. It's as if she's the sun in my dark dreary world. One I  didn't realize was becoming dull and ascetic until seeing her across  the way that day weeks ago. I've been living for those few glimpses of  her in the mornings, like a lovesick puppy. Not a good look for a hard  nosed business tycoon who rules everything around him. Today is the day;  I can't believe I'm nervous. Fuck. I haven't been this nervous over a  woman in....never.

I made sure to dress down today; by that I mean no suit and tie just a  black button down, black slacks, shirt sleeves rolled to the elbows,  first two buttons left undone. Casually relaxed without looking like a  fucking perv. There wasn't a damn thing I could do about my hair, so why  bother? Just a swift brush through that didn't do shit to keep it  tamed. I studied myself in the mirror wondering who the fuck was this  guy who was sweating at the thought of approaching a woman? Maybe the  problem was that I hadn't once thought of her in the way I've thought of  any female since I was seventeen. She wasn't just a hot piece of ass  that I wanted to break a piece off of. Those I went after whole hog  until jollies were had by all before both parties went their merry way.  Except not to toot my own horn but in most cases they usually wanted the  jolly to go on for much longer. That's how I came up with decision to  have a long-term arrangement with Lynn I got tired of the drama that  came with break ups.